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Web accessibility researcher
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Summary:
Recently retooled in web software development and web accessibility at Learners Guild. Previously nonprofit project director and engineer at the PanLex project of The Long Now Foundation, developing a database of all known translations among all words of all human languages.
Specialties: web application development, web accessibility, panlingual translation, computational lexicography, human rights, language choice, language policy, commercial real estate, California common-interest development regulation.
Specialties:
Associations:
Utilika Foundation, Esperantic Studies Foundation
Honors:
Experience:
Web Accessibility Researcher
geezer.pro
February 2018 - Present
I research web accessibility as a problem in law, regulation, policy, standardization, and software development, for application to the software that I develop and, as capabilities justify, to the needs of employers and/or a (until now hypothetical) company (https://geezer.pro).
Learner
Learners Guild
May 2017 - February 2018
Enrollee (from May 2017 to February 2018) in full-time program of collaborative education in web application development.
Project Director
The Long Now Foundation
January 2012 - December 2016
Led migration of PanLex project (https://panlex.org) sponsorship from Utilika Foundation to The Long Now Foundation. Hired and supervised interns, volunteers, and employees. Managed partnerships. Developed and populated PostgreSQL database of 1.3 billion lexical translations among 6 thousand languages. Developed human and search-engine interfaces to database. Documented project software for end users and developers (https://dev.panlex.org).
Director
Berkeley Town House Cooperative Corporation
May 2011 - December 2011
Elected member of the Board of Directors of the first senior housing cooperative ever founded in the U.S. Also served as Secretary of the corporation from June, 2011, until August, 2011. As secretary, created and curated web-retrievable digital archive of 6 thousand documents.
President
Utilika Foundation
May 2004 - December 2011
Directed grant and internship programs. Directed and led research and development. Directed strategic partnership with University of Washington Turing Center and sponsorship policymaking.
Chair, Events Committee
University of Washington - Turing Center - Computer Science & Engineering
2006 - 2009
Led recruitment, scheduling, and publicity for colloquia and group discussions.
Proprietor
Centerplex
1990 - 2004
Owned and operated office buildings. Reconfigured office buildings as service-rich incubators for small businesses, professionals, and nonprofits. Directed strategic management restructuring and liquidation.
Assistant and Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Washington
September 1977 - June 1993
Teaching and research on political research methods, comparative politics, political theory, language policy, decision theory.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Stony Brook University
January 1971 - June 1977
Teaching and research in political research methodology, language policy, political theory.
Education:
Learners Guild
Computer Software Engineering
2017 - 2018
JavaScript-based development of server and client applications and APIs, including database integration, testing, usability, accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), and documentation.
Activities and Societies:
University of Washington
Linguistics, Computer Science
2004 - 2009
Undergraduate and graduate courses in syntax, semantics, morphology, computational linguistics, programming, data structures, algorithms, artificial intelligence, human rights, public policy.
Activities and Societies:
University of Chicago
Ph.D. Political Science
1966 - 1971
Doctoral study of political science.
Activities and Societies: International Language Society
Harvard University
B.A. Government
1960 - 1964
Undergraduate study of government.
Activities and Societies: Harvard-Radcliffe Esperanto Club
Public Profile Url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanpool